#tremendous

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#also #coast #dealing #devastation #gulf

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#back #clever #come #driver #hit

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#always #cleverness #discovering #fuss #magical

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#angle #ball #call #decisions #difference

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. ↗

— David Amram

#both #common #common interests #country #dreams

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #because #bores #down #else

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#confidence #downhill #feeling #give #reaches

Directing is a tremendous art. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#directing #tremendous

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#blotted #characters #loneliness #mind #never